ainsley: how old were you when your mom went to prison? >> 24. ainsley: 24.r you? >> it was extremely, extremely egressing and just -- you couldn't believe it. my mouth dropped in court. i was in court every day, and i'm thinking, these people cannot believe these people. this don't even sound real to me, and i'm in this house. this part, what they're saying, all this stuff couldn't have happened. and i'm, like, they can't be guilty. ainsley: your hands are tied, there's nothing you can do. it's the law. how did that feel? >> it's just, it's no way to even really describe that feeling, because your heart just literally sinks into your stomach. that's not -- i wouldn't wish it on anybody, but especially my mother. i'm, like, i'll take her place before i'll allow her to go. and that was the worst. ainsley: i know when your mom was released in june, there was one car -- >> the lawyer said, you can go get your mother. i called everybody, we can go, we can go. we meeting up, and my aunts left from here, and i ended up meeting them on the highway, because i'm rolli

ainsley: oh.no idea soccer was growing this way in this country. bobcats know in europe and germany to avoid the net. steve: nothing but net. brian: where is jillian? ainsley: she is upstairs with headlines. jillian: good morning. get you caught up on some of the stories we are following starting with this today family and friends plan to line the streets to honor a north carolina cop ambushed in the line of duty. canine officer jordan sheldon shot and killed during a traffic stop over the weekend. the suspect taking his own life. hundreds visiting a memorial and leaving flowers, cards, and signs to honor the six-year veteran of the force. sheldon's funeral is set for this friday in charlotte. pamela anderson is planning to visit julian assange in jail. wikileaks tweeting that the former bay watch star will be in london for the meeting today. she has been a long-time supporter of assange and called on the u.k. to not extradite him to the u.s. assange was sentenced to nearly a year in jail after hi

ainsley: all of them got reunited? jillian: yep. ainsley: that's awesome.an: when he came here and sang a beer with jesus, remember? jillian: yeah. brian: the other studio we had before we were elevated on the second floor. steve: on this channel. thank you, jillian. brian: he didn't actually had a beer with jesus. he thought about it and sang about it. ainsley: maybe one day. brian: who knows. 13 minutes after the hour. the national economy is booming under president trump. why are so many blue states in the red? that story is next. steve: it's his birthday so here is more billy joel ♪ ♪ ♪ an electronic locking rear differential for... yeah... this. heading to the supermarket? get any truck. heading out here? get the ford ranger. the only adventure gear built ford tough. (burke) at fso we know how ton almost evercover almost anything. even rooftop parking. strange forces at work? only if you're referring to gravity-and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ r

ainsley: right.e most extreme pro-life legislation in the country. steve: it's going to the supreme court. >> correct. it's written for that purpose. there is a view that there is a pro-life majority in the supreme court and if there is any -- obviously a pro-life president. and if there is any time to dismantle roe and i will tell you what i think would happen, the time is now. the dismantling of roe would leave it up to each individual state. you want an abortion, you come to new jersey or new york where infanticide is legal. you don't want to live in an environment with abortion, did you go to alabama. that's what the choice will be. steve: all about state's rights. the states get to pick. >> even justice scalia who believed abortion was murder felt that the proper constitutional position was to leave it up to the states. why? because the constitution is silent on it. brian: that's what they're doing right now until it goes up to the supreme court. >> correct. so, question, when, not if, when it g

ainsley: timeline. he said we didn't know in russia spying until june you are saying that's not true it was before that when they were meeting. brian: absolutely. downer is like hey i heard about this. this meeting i held with paparazzi in the bar in the spring. podesta's emails get hit. i met with a foreign policy advisor who meth with donald trump five minutes to say that the russians had his emails. then the thing goes ahead, oh, excuse me, i want to know about the spring first and how dare i go out of my way to ask questions on who halper is. professor meeting with papadopoulos and carter page and now we find out that carter page is meeting in virginia. ainsley: at his farm. brian: he was not clear what he did for a living. what he is doing for a living is pretending to be a professor. what is he doing for a living is working for the fbi. you don't think we have the right to ask questions? pete: thankfully we do. we got from inspector horowitz looking into the application process and bill barr. it's

ainsley. ainsley: thanks, brian.extreme restrictions on abortion in several republican states. >> these bills are ridiculous. this is what we were fighting so hard for with kavanaugh. >> none of these men will ever be pregnant. >> why are men having such a war against women. why is the republican party trying to set women back 50 years or 75 years? why do they want us to go back to the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant? ainsley: where are all the pro-life voices in these conversations who agree with the latest moves? our next guest arguing in a new op-ed that the left is dominating conversation and silencing their views because of their control of pop culture. here to explain is kerry gress. eighthology of home. good morning, kerry, thanks for being with us. >> good morning. thank you. ainsley: good morning. how did we get here when you are shopping at the grocery store and you see the front cover of magazines and message to our little girls is proabortion. late-term abortion. alyssa milano. >> um-huh. yeah, i think it'

ainsley: smart.bo calls and the fcc is warning it could get worse. brian: i thought we solved this years ago with the do not call list. kurt of the cyberguy. kurt the cyberguy is here, ladies and gentlemen, to solve all our problems. [cheers and applause] brian: they are look at frequently used area codes and they come at it and makes you think it's a real call. >> they can even use one of your relatives or friend's phone number and fake out the caller i.d. so you think it's one of the people you love calling. ainsley: how do they do that? >> you can change the caller id on your phone in software in a matter of a second and weekend be in a whole other country and pulling these tricks off. the fact is it isn't that the fcc is warning it could get worse it is worse. it's going to get a lot worse. now, something is coming to the rescue. first of all, let me ask you this, show of hands here, who has received a robo call ever in life? who has received if you have received over the last week who has receiv

ainsley?victims and their families taking the fbi to court demanding the names of those who provided support for the terror attacks from united states u.s. listen. >> you know the documents exist but are being stymied. we just want justice. >> the government knows who did it. they know who funded it. very painful. continuous kick in the gut. >> we are being revictimized because our government has not been compliant in forthcoming with these documents. ainsley: families are asking the doj to key veal redacted names from investigation memos that could show how high ranking saudi officials were involved. federal attorneys say this could be a national security risk but our next guest just want the truth. bret eagleson's father bruce was killed in the terror attack. he died a hero. we will hear his story in just a moment from his son and tim was working in the south tower and injured during the attack. bret and tim join us now. so, bret, you were actually in -- i think i mixed that up. your dad die

ainsley: wow. they interviewed some of the neighbors of the kid that they have released his name and neighbors said he didn't make eye contact. he was quiet. did he play several musical instruments. john said the gunman was hidden in a guitar case. 1800 kids in this school starting in kindergarten k through 12. some of the kids interviewed were 8 years old. 6 years old. too young. brian: they all drill in case of a school shooting so they actually knew what to do. many of which were in contact with their parents early because they didn't want to put their phones on that was part of the security process. we will follow that story. jonathan hunt will be there as the sun comes up. 3 minutes after the top of the hour. the president had a meeting yesterday republican leaders to talk about, guess what? the immigration crisis that we're experiencing. republicans know about it, but what are they going to do about it? in a little while we will tell you what joe biden would do. here's what the president actu

ainsley? ainsley: okay. thanks, brian.bek revealing that his stage 4 peak cancer i pretty nicepancrer remission. he shared this with his fans. >> i'm going to fight this and i'm going to keep working and with the love and support of my family and friends and with the help of your prayers, also, i plan to beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease. ainsley: trebek now says some of his tumors have shrunk by more than 50%. what comes next for him? here with insight is fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. ainsley: are you shocked by this i know you see this every day are you shocked? >> that's wonderful news. cancer is just a word. it's not necessarily a sentence. and even if you have stage 4 prettpancreatic cancer meaning it's me as it sized. we have advanced. it's not necessarily a life sentence anymore there is something very powerful about hope and positive thinking and just the support that he has been getting and that is stronger than any sort of treatmen

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ainsley: carrie underwood.i wonder if people will watch this show like game of thrones to see how many different beverage containers they can actually see on different places ons the tables brian brian product place. steve: those are accidents from game of thrones very latest after the starbucks coffee two weeks ago now they saw. ainsley: water bottle. hidden underneath. if you are the actor wouldn't you think this is going to be seen? brian: budget so big on this. people looking for continuity issues. i don't have to worry about it. someone will say to me put your papers away or straighten your papers up. people say to that to me every day and still i'm supposed to be reminded. steve: you are supposed to have papers in front of you because this is a news show. they they do not belong in that period of time. ainsley: if you were hiding a dragon under your leg. brian: last dragon i had was on the munsters under the staircase. do you remember that? steve: start with this story, president trump clacking down on il

ainsley?nks, steve. as america faces a record breaking year measles 764 cases in 23 states formerly anti-vaccination mom is sharing why she chose to finally having sane nate her kids. ainsley: abby wrote i grew up unvaccinated before it was cool. glad my babies don't need to suffer through preventable diseases. proud to vaccinate. abby is here to share her story. >> good morning. ainsley: what changed your mind actually? i was reading but and originally you told your husband you didn't want to vaccinate your kids and changed your mind during your pregnancy? >> exactly. ainsley: turn your phone off. hd. we know your daughter is right there. >> yeah. trying to get her distracted. yeah. actually what initially started me to investigate further on the pro-vaccinating side was talking to my husband's mother. she had actually contracted rubella as a child in grade school. and she had -- she almost died. she was sick for six weeks. and bedridden. they had the curtains closed and her brothers actually

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ainsley: exactly.te department or doj said it's unprecedented and unnecessary and inappropriate. the president agrees. listen. >> you want to you will treat him differently than they have for everybody else and for many, many years never done it this way where they're bringing in outside counsel or something. that's not the way -- you know, you elect people they are supposed to be able to do their own talking. steve: now it sounds like the possibility there is a democrats may try to hold the attorney general in contempt. it was clear yesterday they did not like what he had to say. essentially the testimony questioning broke down into two parts. the republicans asked how the whole thing got started, essentially, was there spying, et cetera. democrats were asking about the ending regarding his four-page statement that he sent out where it was revealed, you know, hours before, the hearing started that robert mueller had sent a letter in march and said did he not like the attorney general's four-page memo

ainsley: really?with you in the house. ainsley: what do we do about cyber security? >> cyber security. you want to create a smaller social media footprint as possible. because your social media footprint will lead you either to your home or to your internet life. your personal life on the internet. and what people do today, is they put everything out on social media where you live, when you are on vacation. you want to stop your geo locating pictures and time stamping. duenezly want to tell the world where you are at every minute? because they could find you and they know when you are not home. ainsley: what about a school shooting situation? >> school shooting situation is tough. i sit on a board canine for kids. now there is a lot of debate whether arming teachers are doing nothing at all. having a canine in the school or having other ways to educate yourself, fire drills don't work anymore, you know, locker down, run, hide, fight is the way to go. but know your capability. because that is what will

ainsley, brian, that is some of the news. ainsley: thank you, steve.s life for our country, suffering injuries in iraq and afghanistan. john comes home to 2500 square foot smart house built especially with him in mind. >> he is one of the first of the amputees to emerge from war. >> john peck about 14 months ago. >> he will get placed on a transplant list for his new arms. >> u.s. marine john peck celebrating a successful double arm transplant. ainsley: that is amazing. in 2010 while serving in afghanistan, a ie. d explosion left sergeant peck as quadruple amputee. he underwent groundbreaking transplant, receiving two knew arms. brian: that is the his new book, rebuilding sergeant peck. how i put body and soul back together after afghanistan. sergeant peck joins us in studio. privilege to have him here. one. finest reporters in the country,. griff. you were on this story together. >> we've been friend since 2012. we met each other in buford, south carolina. that is where john came to the independence fund and asked for a track chair for the first time.

ainsley: thank you so much, grier. >> thank you so much, ainsley. kids playing sports. are parents to blame? >> what has always surprised me to is to see these grown-ups in theory clapping when the opposing team misses a foul shot. ensure he's well taken care of, even as you build your own plans for retirement. see how lincoln can help. can the past help you write the future? can you feel calm in the eye of a storm? can you do more with less? can you raise the bar while reducing your footprint? for our 100 years we've been answering the questions of today to meet the energy needs of tomorrow. southern company let's blow out the candles together! ok, let's huff and puff. like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. so my doctor said... symbicort can help you breathe better- starting within 5 minutes. it doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be ta

ainsley: what movie is this in? steve: trolls. ainsley: how did you see that?: the audio guy told me. ainsley: everyone who has little kids knows that it's very popular song. brian: good philosophy. it's okay to dance, dance, dance. ainsley: we do that a lot around the kitchen. steve: we do. today is the parade of ships. fleet week kicks off. todd piro is on one of those ships today. ainsley: memorial day weekend. steve: yesterday we introduced you to the guy out at the rally in pennsylvania dressed like a wall. is he going to be with us in 15 minutes to explain why he did it, why he was like second or third in line in the middle of the night to be there. ainsley: a lookout of people did it after that because it sold out throughout the morning. steve: thank you for joining us on this very busy wednesday. brian: big story in drudge today we have only built a mile and a half of wall but, yet, we have been allocated to build at least 100 miles of wall. for some reason they just can't seem to get it done. unbelievable. ainsley: a lot of conservatives say it needs t

ainsley: everybody together? steve: yes. ainsley: how about you, brian?an: chris had a game. 8 hour trip on mother's day when everyone choosing to drive. thanks to the planet for i raining to be religionly. steve: that was in the northeast i was down south and it was a beautiful day. brian: that would have been the place to be. when we started this show we were playing panic at the disco. we have a different kind of panic. it's called a crisis, constitutional crisis according to some democrats. ainsley: remember democrats wouldn't say crisis at the border. manufactured crisis. they have been screaming crisis after what happened with william barr when he -- when they voted to hold him in contempt. steve: we want a clean copy of the mueller report. we don't want anything sharpied out. we want to see the whole thing. ainsley: the sound bite yesterday on all the sunday show from the democrats constitutional crisis. listen. >> we are looking at a crisis. not only of confidence but constitutional crisis. >> a president who has been overreaching. >> we are clear

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ainsley: on other side society, you look fantastic, griff. steve: pocket square perfectly matches the necktie. reporter: the brilliant resilient mcgaveer kilmeade. steve: president presented tiger woods with the medal of freedom since he won the extraordinary masters a couple weeks ago. the president wanted to salute him. he brought his whole family. he has had super highs and super lows and yesterday's event was really something. listen. >> you have seen the good and the bad, the highs and the lows. in '97, yes i won the masters i was there to, i ended up hugging my dad and my mom. my dad is no longer here but my mom's here. i love you mom. i have battled. i tried, i tried to hang in there. i have tried to come back and play the great game of golf again. amazing masters experience that i just had a few weeks ago. certainly this is probably the highlight of what i've accomplished so far in my life on the golf course. this is an honor. brian: four back surgeries. he went years without winning a major. he had to pull himself out of so many tour

. >> ainsley, good morning for texas. ainsley: good morning, i love texas. jeff, tell us about this bill? what did it say and why was it blocked in the house. >> ainsley again, good morning. thanks for having me on this morning. i'm happy to be with you and your viewers. look, this chick-fil-a bill this piece of legislation is about the fundamental pillars upon which our nation and the state of texas were founded. this is about our freedom of religion, our freedom of worship. this is about our first amendment rights secured by god and secured by the constitution. the chick-fil-a bill here in texas under the leadership of our governor greg abbott, attorney general paxton and my friends senator brian hughes and representative crouse meant to push back against the city of san antonio, city council which pushed a resolution in city council chambers a few weeks ago that would have banned chick-fil-a from having an 125e789 at the san antonio airport merely because chick-fil-a has in the past supported organizations like

ainsley: who do you think they are? if you read the latest text message from strzok to page, december 2016, but it was just released i think our sisters have begun leaking like mad, scorned and political, they're kicking into over drive. he worked and lisa worked for fbi who are the sisters? people in the cia or others in the intel community? >> ainsley i don't know. i'm willing to find out. they can't have it both ways. people say it is over, why are we looking at that. they want to continue to have the investigation subpoenas, contempt hearings and all the nonsense that attends to it. they can't have it both ways. we have spend $25 million, wait two years to investigate. brian: but i do have hope, i do have hope, friday "the new york times" picked up a story we're covering for 18 months. >> there you go. >> they are reallying this story they will be left behind unless they join in. will the president go out of his wray to actually block bob mueller coming up in may or june and testifying? or would he just rather don't

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i'm joined by julia ainsley who's been on the story all day.rstand you just received brand-new material, this is above and beyond the mueller remarks that we've been covering and saw. you have something brand-new since then. what is it? >> reporter: yeah, we thought that this press conference today was the last we would hear from bob mueller, but someone from his office gave a handout and i'm going to read to you what it says. this would have been mueller's answer to a question that was asked the day that we got the mueller report. there was a press conference called with william barr to go over his conclusions before we saw the report and a reporter said, did you not make -- did robert mueller not make a decision on obstruction because of the opinion that says you cannot charge a sitting president. the attorney general said that that wasn't it, they didn't find enough evidence. mueller adds what his response would have been had he been there that day. i'm going to read directly from my phone. robert mueller's answer to that question, would you

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julia ainsley at our washington bureau. thank you. >>> moments ago president trump confirmed that the united states will send more troops to the middle east amid the tensions with iran. >> we want to have protection. the middle east, we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops, mostly protective, and some very talented people are going to the middle east right now. we'll see how -- we'll see what happens. it will be about 1,500 people. i don't think iran wants to fight. i certainly don't think they want to fight with us. but they cannot have nuclear weapons. >> now this comes as three u.s. defense officials tell nbc news that the acting defense secretary, patrick shanahan, has approved a plan to send additional missile defense systems and surveillance aircraft to the area. joining me, nbc's courtney cubey at the pentagon. this is certainly a thing that seems to be trickling, you know, more and more in terms of troops going to the middle east. shanahan seems to be a little more obtuse about it. walk us thro

ainsley: at the truck stop? brian: truck stop. ainsley: sober night brian brian: always is.

nbc news julia ainsley has the exclusive details.ell us about what's going on? >> you're right, geoff, this is the largest group border patrol has encountered. the last record was over 400 set last month. they are seeing larger groups coming as part of a trend. these immigrants feel safety in numbers. they want to come in a large group because of how dangerous it can be. more immigrants are coming in illegally. that's because it's hard erd to get in legally. it's harder to get in when you want to claim asylum at legal ports of entry. what this means from a safety and humanitarian perspective is sometimes border patrol is not able to safely attend to these large groups. they don't have the medical personnel. often these people are patrolling the border in pairs, so you have two border agents encountering a group of over a thousand in this case. the majority of them, over 900, traveled as part of a family. that means if you encounter a mother and child, those would counting at two family units. so we're seeing more families, again part

presidents are in the process just after casting his vote here still confident about supporting the ainsley. they can see that with their vote on how to go. then you're beginning to new that the period of renewal and it's also period of hope. for many that's what trauma process stands for he replaced former president jacob zuma who was forced out last year of a corruption scandals. corruption got into the way the true nature got into the way and not focusing on the needs of our people got into the way. as the country struggles with corruption crime poverty economic stagnation and an official unemployment rate at twenty seven percent people's wishes a down to the essentials hoped would be a job you know for the people that are employed. hope to get something up to the next. stage through the doors of jobs those kind of town hoping that they can get to this jobs stop corruption which is the main course in a. victory for the a.n.c. is assured but if the party wants to halt the slide in support these are the concerns they quickly have to deliver on. from on this i'm joined by a professor kalibo

ainsley: that's true. steve: welcome aboard, folks. it's "fox & friends."just telling you something could go wrong today. ainsley: you were born for this like beto. brian: how many people are singing with kenny chesney. like he is singing in front of a chorus. do you listen to how many people are singing that song. is the

ainsley: what does that mean? stuart: yeah. ainsley: very vague. stuart: what does that mean?peach him. i don't know. i have no idea. come back in marc lotter. do you have a comment on this please? we just heard, speaker pelosi says he is engaged in a coverup. what does that mean? >> it just ludicrous, laughable. let's remember. this was a president who turned over a million documents. there were 500 subpoenas. there were people that were subpoenaed and spoke to the special counsel and for some reason democrats don't like the answers that will make up a new one. if there was any coverup it is what happened in the justice department under the obama administration when they were wiretapping members of the trump campaign. they were using opposition research to get secret court orders for wiretaps and things like that. that's the real coverup, if they're trying to hide. it is going to be exposed by bill barr and others. i think that is where their real fear lies right now. stuart: i figuring out whether they go ahead with impeachment, keep going with investigate, investigate. no c

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. >> on that note here for our lead off discussion on a friday night julia ainsley nbc national security and justice reporter. chuck rosenberg. former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi official who served as counselor to robert mueller, now the host of a new msnbc podcast called the oath this week's edition features a discussion with doj james baker. former fbi director for counterintelligence who also worked with robert mueller. good evening and welcome to you all. julia, i'd like to begin with you. we're 24 hours now into knowing about the president's action where the attorney general is concerned. now on a friday night, the question for you is what is the take away for our viewers on the weight of the president's action here? >> the take away -- i think we can read into the president's comments today to pretty clearly decipher in, is that the president wants to use his power, which he does have of declaskts classification in a very specific way as a tool in order to get out the information he wants. he wants to be able to allow his attorney general william barr to declassify informatio

ainsley: you're welcome. how have you been doing? it's almost been a year. >> this seems so

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joining me with more details on this, julia ainsley. we knew some of the details, now the indictment has come forward this was as we believe it can be a paper play sort of deal. >> some of the characters from the mueller investigation will continue to be charged. one of the characters coming up is steven calk, ceo of federal savings bank in chicago. he was one of that lended to paul manafort. hard for paul manafort to get money. a time he was trying to keep up his lavish life-style, was in a tremendous amount of debt. in a lot of cases he lied on loan applications. seems that stephen calk knew the truth about the financial situation and helped him lie to the bank. later the bank found out and loans were downgraded. he tried to use it as laid out in the indictment as a way to be able to sway favor and get into the pivotal trump administration when trump was a candidate. he was able to get on the council of economic advisers in 2016 and laid out a list of positions he would like, secretary of commerce, treasury, even the secretary of the

ainsley: you're welcome. how have you been doing? it's almost been a year. >> this seems so

joining our conversation julia ainsley. i saw you at 9:00 a.m.be this policy package as dead on arrival. i've been wondering all day long how jared kushner and mr. miller ended up in charge of something that made its way to the rose garden today to come out of donald trump's lips as dead on arrival. that's political -- you know, really political incompetence at an unbelievable level. >> maybe the one success is that jared kushner and stephen miller were able to agree on something when it comes to immigration. maybe that's the win they're taking home today. i will say jared kushner wanted to be this person to reach out to business leaders, reach across the aisle and come out with some compromise. he likes to be transparent on this process, we saw that on the hill. you can be transparent and still not be able to answer people's questions and that's apparently what happened when he met on the hill. one thing i will note they want this to be business friendly. bring in people on a merritt based visa system so you have to pass a civic's test you're br

. >> joining me now, anita kumar and also julia ainsley. thank you both for being here. and anita, let me start with you because this is your reporting right now, politico, and we should underscore that we here at nbc news are still working at confirming this and finding out whether this is what the president was teasing there. but what are the con toirs of this plan that you and your colleagues at politico are reporting on and how would that affect what we're seeing at the border right now? >> sure. what we're hearing is that administration officials mostly at the department of homeland security where looking at some kind of rule which would be sort of an executive action that the president could take or his department could take that would not -- would no longer allow people that are coming through mexico, the southern border, into the united states to claim asylum. so people coming from central american countries. and recently those are the people that the president has been talking a lot about. he has been talking about how there is such a problem in central american

julia ainsley for us. >>> wall street's having a rough morning. it's bracing for some bad news this weekend. the dow is down each week for the past month and unless it rallies back up to a number, 25,764 by closing on friday, this will be the first time since 2011 that the index has seen five straight weeks of net losses. in other words, each week for the last five weeks, the dow will have ended lower than it started. so you can see there, we're -- that would have to be about a 500-point gain from where we aro perspective, oh, my goodness, we have a market shock, is this a recession, the market is moving like this because of the the trade war. so this isn't a market negative. >> correct. >> the president has made a move that artificially impacts the market. and maybe for the time being, it's the right move, if you reach the president's ultimate goal. but we're hard-pressed to find someone who thinks that will be the case. >> cnbc's sue herrera joins us now. some of the stuff we're seeing in the in the markets today are earnings related. best buy s

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joy ainsley is national security and justice reporter for nbc news and donny deutsch is the host of theew show "saturday night politics" on msnbc. donny, let's just talk about chutzpah. with the attorney general saying no problem, robert mueller, who wrote this report, who was the basis for all discussions for two years, he can testify. i'm not getting in his way. trump on friday says i'm not getting in the way of the attorney general on this. he can let him prosecute. then over the weekend he has the nerve, the stones to come out and say, i'm not going to let the american people hear from the guy who wrote the report that i'm using to exonerate myself with. can he get away with this? >> it's gone. >> constitutionally. >> before anything else robert mueller is a u.s. citizen. when we get to the point in this country when forget that he's a special prosecutor and forget that he used to run the fbi. forget that he's a boy scout. forget that he served in vietnam. that we have a president that says a u.s. citizen can't even speak up, it defies logic. trump's biggest fear right now, what is